In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. – Alan Watts
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. – Alan Watts
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. – Alan Watts
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts